Brother Slam Poems

Once upon a time holly loosely based 
upon a true story 

There was a man who shall be called

Lord Mountbatten / Battenberg 

A true Hero...

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Ushering forth from the womb
Born into this world with a
silver spoon awaiting
The burden of one's title responsibility
and family name
This became and turned into a
derivative of...

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Love Able.
Ask Adam and Eve.
Ask If they would leave Cain; Alone and lost in the rain
like he left his brother to rot in the open...

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Will to survive

A tale of survivors guilt
or heroism do not with i begin

But rather with the opposite
of willing not to live

My nieces boyfriends brother
hung himself...

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The best writters write about what they know

So i was told or so the story goes

So what better then to write about than one's very...

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I grew up in the Old South Africa

During the Apartheid era

So i know what it means to be racist

But all i see is faces

And judge...

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So darn poor

Even the slaves took pity

And the devil stole my moonshine

Swing me down to the river

Blue monday mothers child

The world left behind
turned it's back...

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I woke up that day with tears in my eyes,
after I heard about your father's demise.
Guess you've never understood,
the point of being his blood.

I remember...

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~I wore your skin~

Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy

Brother, I...

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The stars reached back
Each night
When I prayed that I would wake up and the pain would be over
And that everything everyone had ever said to...

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To the Dove World Outreach Center and Westboro Baptist Church

At the Sunday gospel meeting
Coded words of hate repeating
Welcome in if you're Caucasian
Enter not if black...

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He loved you too, you know
Loved you like his very own
In away you were
You came into his life as my friend
Through the years you grew...

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Please don't cry over my casket 
For I am not there 
Please don't cry at my grave 
My soul has been set free 
I know...

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Today I am going to hop my way to my brother.
To tell him how I feel about not being together.
I thought I could be so...

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To see her blog, adorned with pastel tones
Widens the gap that pervades my bones
For now we eat her passing meal of plain white rice
Leaving us...

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